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Fresh off the success of her groundbreaking first play, A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window tells the tragicomic story of a young bohemian couple in New York's Greenwich Village, struggling to do what's right in a world that rewards everything that's wrong. Sidney is a dreamer who wants his own Walden Pond; Iris is a budding actress whose own backstory is a performance. They're caught in a moment where, "the world is about to crack right down the middle," as the play tackles racism, sexism, antisemitism, homophobia, liberal complacency, and more.

“What a knockout. An incredibly rich and new voice for American literature…China Boy grabs the reader’s heart and won’t let go.”—Amy Tan, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club “A fascinating, evocative portrait of the Chinese community in California in the 1950s, caught between...

Tras el suicidio de su hermana en la tumba del emperador, la seguridad de Lin Shui en la Ciudad Prohibida pende de un hilo. Ahora, como princesa de una dinastía derrotada y concubina favorita del nuevo emperador, verá cómo las envidias y amenazas crecen a su alrededor. Pero su vulnerabilidad pasa a un segundo plano cuando las muertes empiezan a sucederse y los asesinatos no hacen sino confirmar la sospecha obsesiva que la atormenta.

Three one-act plays from David Mamet, one of the master stage writers of our time.